Hughes v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1977
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Painter v. Fletcher · Welch v. McIntosh · Hull v. Allen
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(does) not relate to any of those fundamental things which the statute requires shall be reduced to writing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not go to the substance of the contract”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.